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All the ideas for 'Isagoge ('Introduction')', 'A World of Propensities' and 'The Varieties of Necessity'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

11946

Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

15034

Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them? [Porphyry]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

9216	Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

9214	Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

9215	Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]